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This is the homepage of my college. I thought you might like to check it out.

Hello Everyone - better late then never. I have posted the URL of the Hospitality Association that Fanshawe College is the only educational partner. Thought it might be a little break from the Tweetin' Blogin' Diigoin' that we have been doing. Hope you enjoy, cheers... rob

Pinterest is a social network which allows you to share and comment on visual material, which could be photographs, sketches, videos or web pages. Like a virtual scrapbook, but very public, you can collate the items that you love. This post explores some uses for it in education

It seems in the twenty-first century new learning technologies are appearing every day for teachers to think about. With the advent of technology across all fields of learning, the ways in which learners store and retrieve information for further use has dramatically changed.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that offers an alternative to full copyright. By placing a Creative Commons statement on your blog, you are specifying the terms of use for anyone who would wish to use your material.

Here is a useful scheduling tool, I would imagine its best use to be to organize meeting times between teachers and students. Everyone can access the same schedule without the need to synchronize or coordinate multiple calendars.

We'll be updating this page regularly.Please check back for updates. Call it the year of the mega-class. Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs-short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate.

An infographic with numbers about students use of social media and its role in education.

Managing e-Learning Projects is extremely important for successful e-Learning course design. This article is the third in a series about e-Learning Project Management. Check it out and learn about the Stages of Effective eLearning Project Management and Skill Set Required for Managing eLearning Projects.

I'm enrolled as a student in the MOOC Saving Schools Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Education on the edX platform and share in this post discussion questions used for assignment purposes from the course to illustrate what NOT to do when it comes to writing discussion questions.

Juárez Correa didn't know it yet, but he had happened on an emerging educational philosophy, one that applies the logic of the digital age to the classroom..

A Georgia Tech student claims he and two roommates were able to get any user's phone number, that they texted the founder (who, he said, called him back), to spam any user, and to send any text they want. Now it looks like one of them will be working for the company.

This extensive directory of learning tools and technologies is the result of a collective effort initiated, developed and maintained by Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. It offers a comprehensive list of tech tools which you can use for your online and offline teaching.

Really interested in how to use twitter for education and keeping it's use in a professional manner :-)

It seems the page has moved, I am getting Error 404

In this article from The Gaurdian (UK) the author reports on a debate at King's College London where a respected panel and an energetic audience of students discussed the future of online technology and education. While students didn't think it was a big deal, not all of the educators saw technology and education flowing together so smoothly. A very interesting article.

Take the quiz. See if you are ready for social media in your class

The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you're trying to teach. We still have to focus on the task at hand. Don't mistake social media for socializing.